verta mae (6 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. 156 Pp. Re Cloth, Spine Lettered In Black. First Edition Stated. Near Fine, No Marks. Dust Jacket Price Clipped With Bookseller's $6.95 Price Label. Dust Jacket With Light Wear, A Few Tiny Tears And Losses At Edges. Per Wikipedia, Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor (1937 - 2016) Was An American Culinary Anthropologist, Griot, Poet, Food Writer, And Broadcaster On Public Media. Born Into A Gullah Family In The Low Country Of South Carolina, She Moved With Them As A Child To Philadelphia During The Great Migration. Later She Lived In Paris Before Settling In New York City. She Was Active In The Black Arts Movement And Performed On Broadway. Her Travels Informed Her Cooking And Appreciation Of Food As Culture. She Was Known For Her Cookbook-Memoir, Vibration Cooking: Or, The Travel Notes Of A Geechee Girl (1970), And Published Numerous Essays And Articles. She Produced Two Award-Winning Documentaries And Was A Commentator For Years On Npr, Serving As A Contributor To Its Now Series. Grosvenor Also Appeared In Several Films, Including Personal Problems (1980), An Independent Film By Bill Gunn, Daughters Of The Dust (1992), About A Gullah Family In 1902 During A Time Of Transition On The Sea Islands, And Beloved (1998), Based On Toni Morrison's 1987 Novel Of The Same Name. She Was In A National Geographic Documentary About The Gullah People. Early Life And Education.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition. Dust jacket in good condition. First edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Dust jacket placed in mylar for preservation. Light foxing to text block. Clipping visible to top corner of front free end page. Binding is sound. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good +. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. The 1972 stated 1st edition of this uncommon "domestic rap" on the role of "black people"- housekeeping though the years. Solid and VG+ (very light staining along the bottom-edges) in a bright, VG dustjacket, with light chipping along the spine ends and the tips, and very mild soiling and creasing to the panel edges. Octavo, 156 pgs. Written through the lens of an empowered, Sixties sensibility, includes chapter headings such as "Freedom is better than slavery and i know cause i done seed both sides", "Massas and lawn Moors", "Nobody knows the master better than the servant", "House niggers ain't shit", "The Servants Done Riz!", "Mammy, Aunt Jemima & Uncle Ben, the Gold Dust twins and the rest of the family", etc.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 153pp. Faint stain on front board, near fine in price-clipped and slightly soiled near fine dust jacket. Freeform essays and reflections about Black domestic servants by the author of *Vibration Cooking, or The Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl*. Inscribed by the author to a noted African-American book collector: "to Dan Johnson - Keep the Faith - Verta Mae. NYC. 1974." Considering it was issued by a mainstream publisher, a surprisingly uncommon title.

Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: dj. First printing. First edition of this classic of culinary Americana: part-narrative, part-cookbook memoir of the experiences of a Gullah Geechee woman, prescient in style and content. The LA TIMES notes that VIBRATION COOKING "illuminates one Black woman's experience like no work of literature before or since." The flow between recipe and prose would not be out of place on a cooking blog of today; Mae's reflections on the origins of her ingredients and commentary on US culture give context to her traditional and global dishes. "There is no reference to black people's contribution to the culinary arts. White folks act like they invented food," she observes in the first chapter, but "food is food. Everybody eats!" Mae herself has a wide and varied career - from journalism and broadcasting to acting and activism - and was a prominent force in the Black Arts Movement. Now recognized a landmark cookbook, VIBRATION COOKING has been reprinted numerous times. However, the first edition is increasingly scarce. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original black cloth binding with silver lettering to spine. Original color pictorial dust jacket, unclipped ($4.95), designed by Sydney Butchkes. Red endpapers. 190 pages, including index. Jacket spine mildly sunned, with a slightly creased tear on the rear panel, touches of edgewear. Book trace shelfwear. Else clean and sound. Near fine in very good plus jacket.

Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: dj. First printing. Inscribed first edition of this classic of culinary Americana: part-narrative, part-cookbook memoir of the experiences of a Gullah Geechee woman, prescient in style and content. The LA TIMES notes that VIBRATION COOKING "illuminates one Black woman's experience like no work of literature before or since." The flow between recipe and prose would not be out of place on a cooking blog of today; Mae's reflections on the origins of her ingredients and commentary on US culture give context to her traditional and global dishes. "There is no reference to black people's contribution to the culinary arts. White folks act like they invented food," she observes in the first chapter, but "food is food. Everybody eats!" Mae herself has a wide and varied career - from journalism and broadcasting to acting and activism - and was a prominent force in the Black Arts Movement. Now recognized a landmark cookbook, VIBRATION COOKING has been reprinted numerous times. However, the first edition is increasingly scarce, and decidedly so signed by Mae. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original black cloth binding with silver lettering to spine. Original color pictorial dust jacket, unclipped ($4.95), designed by Sydney Butchkes. Red endpapers. 190 pages, including index. Inscribed in year of publication by Mae on front free endpaper: "May 11, 1970 / for Miss Wallace, / With special / thanks for taking / care of Kali [Mae's daighter] / Right on, / Verta Mae." Jacket spine mildly sunned. Small closed tear at rear fold. Minor rubbing and toning overall. Else clean and sound. Near fine in a very good plus jacket. Signed.